The Day We took inspiration from Alfred Wallis

Alfred Wallis was an artist who had been a fisherman in Cornwall who only started painting late in life. he had a marine scrapyard and painted in any paint he had, often for yachts, and on any bits of card or wood he had around. His images were simple, flat and without perspective but were very detailed. Especially the pictures of ships.

We looked at his work and found some old bits of wood we had lying around and each painted a scene in his style. We used acrylic paints, not having any yacht paint to hand.

This idea came from an artist pack from the Pallant House Gallery Outside In website. The Step Up project has some great ideas and information about artists with resources to download. Go to:

http://www.outsidein.org.uk/Step-Up

Have a look round the website as some of our group have artists pages there with work up on display.